“…In previous work [
24, 25], we first present an abstract theorem on estimating polynomial decay rate of noncompactness measure of bounded sets for infiniteādimensional dynamical systems and then apply the theorem to a class of wave equation with nonlocal weak damping when the growth exponent
of the nonlinearity
is up to the subcritical case in natural energy space. However, it is failed to obtain the existence of a polynomial attractor by the method in Zhao et al [
25] when
is critical growth; the reason is that the corresponding Sobolev embedding is no longer compact. To overcome the difficulty, we will establish the existence of polynomial attractors based on contractive function [
26, 27], which involves some rather weak compactness associated with the repeated limit inferior and requires no compactness.…”